retain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 保持; 保有; 聘请(律师)，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I well understand that, even if Miss Manette held me at this moment in her innocent heart-do not think I have the presumption to assume so much I could retain no place in it against her love for her father.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Among the latter there may be far more poetical natures than many an ac-knowledged poet, when examined more closely, could boast of; the difference only is, that the poet possesses a better mental memory, on which account he is able to retain the 50 Andersen's Fairy Talesfeeling and the thought till they can be embodied by means of words; a faculty which the others do not possess.
-- 'They are not taller than I; there was one indeed that was considerably shorter; and why do they retain all their branches?
-- These must be got out first; otherwise he will never go back to mankind, and the Snow Queen will retain her power over him.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must consider how to leave this country of the Sun, of which I shall not retain the most delightful of memories, as quickly as possible."
-- Aouda in vain attempted to retain Mr. Fogg; as vainly did the detective endeavour to make the quarrel his.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will be relieved of all war work, by my order--though you can retain your uniform and everything.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
-- The certificate of honour immediately passed into the hands of the drunken guests, and Katerina Ivanovna did not try to retain it, for it actually contained the statement en toutes lettres that her father was of the rank of a major, and also a companion of an order, so that she really was almost the daughter of a colonel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in thisrespect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost thefaculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observesuch men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacityof being pleased, which are also an inheritance they havepreserved from their childhood.
-- 'But,' said Traddles, 'the surplus that would be left as his means ofsupportand I suppose the house to be sold, even in saying this-would be so small, not exceeding in all probability some hundredsof pounds, that perhaps, Miss Wickfield, it would be best toconsider whether he might not retain his agency of the estate towhich he has so long been receiver.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The evening of the very day on which they went brought a note from Mr. Elton to Mr. Woodhouse, a long, civil, cer-emonious note, to say, with Mr. Elton's best compliments, 'that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath; where, in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends, he had engaged to spend a few weeks, and very much regretted the impossi-bility he was under, from various circumstances of weather and business, of taking a personal leave of Mr. Woodhouse, of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense and had Mr. Woodhouse any commands, should be happy to attend to them.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some rash acts of my past life have taught me that a watched woman must have very much circumspection to retain only a very little credit, and I do want and long to be discreet in this!And six years why we may all be in our graves by that time, even if Mr.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The spirits that guarded 252 Frankensteinme had provided these moments, or rather hours, of hap-piness that I might retain strength to fulfil my pilgrimage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When these points were settled, and so far carried out as that I had begun to work in earnest, it occurred to me that if I could retain my bedroom in Barnard's Inn, my life would be agreeably varied, while my manners would be none the worse for Herbert's society.
-- I had gone direct to Mr. Jaggers at his private house, on my arrival over night, to retain his assistance, and Mr. Jaggers on the prisoner's behalf would admit nothing.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore, since my acquaintance were pleased to think my poor endeavours might not be unac-ceptable to my country, I imposed on myself, as a maxim never to be swerved from, that I would strictly adhere to truth; neither indeed can I be ever under the least tempta-tion to vary from it, while I retain in my mind the lectures and example of my noble master and the other illustrious Houyhnhnms of whom I had so long the honour to be an humble hearer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A great white cap, with a quantity of opaque frilling that was always flapping about, apologised for Maggy's baldness, and made it so very difficult for her old black bonnet to retain its place upon her head, that it held on round her neck like a gipsy's baby.
-- His father hoped, in the fulness of time, to leave him the inheritance of an unstained key; and had from his early youth familiarised him with the duties of his office, and with an ambition to retain the prison-lock in the family.
-- Then Mrs Gowan, who had been accustomed in her days of a vacant arm-chair beside her to which to summon state to retain her devoted slaves, one by one, for short audiences as marks of her especial favour, invited Clennam with a turn of her fan to approach the presence.
-- It is not what it used to be; but some of our old friends (principally the writers of this letter) have the kindness not to forget us, and we retain the power of doing what they entrust to us as efficiently as we ever did.
-- 'Hush!Amy,' said the father, passing his pocket-handkerchief several times across his face, and then grasping it convulsively in the hand that dropped across his knee, 'I have done what I could to keep you select here; I have done what I could to retain you a position here.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketers, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously and anomalously modified by things altogether alien and heterogeneous.
-- Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those of the former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness to them in figure, yet the bookbinder's Quarto volume in its dimensioned form does not preserve the shape of the Folio volume, but the Octavo volume does.
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